some of my thoughts on working the election

2024-11-07T00:06:11Z

@jik@federate.social
@taur10@friendica.opensocial.space
(þ = thorn = th)
OOF.

(þis was originally written as reply on Mastodon. didn't feel like breaking it into seperate entries to þread it...)

I worked þe election yesterday. Workers get to polling locations @ 05:00 CST (for set up), polls opened @ 06:00, and closed at 19:00. þen breaking þe equipment down, back into þe transport cages, þen location managers took þe Ballot Boxes to þe designated drop-off location for þe Board of Elections.
I did not look at anything last night after I got home. Just relaxed for awhile, unwound and went to bed about 23:15 (which is actually a bit early for me lately... but with þe early day... )

Disclaimer: I have worked þe polls as a nominal Republican since 2020. NO, I am NOT MAGAt / Trumpist / TeaParty / Dominionist Reþuglican etc. In Missouri, to be poll-worker, you have to declare as Democrat or Republican. (NonPartisan is not allowed as poll-worker, þough some jobs in þe Board of Elections are NonPartisian). þe area @Taur10 and I live in is fairly Democratic, and for 2020, I was afraid that þe orange guy's supporters would get in as poll-workers, and disrupt as much as they could. If anyone asks, I say I am more of a PreReagan (PreRaygun) republican, Back to þe Eisenhower Republican philosophy. Have been Poll Manager for þe past 3 elections. (Municipal, Primary, and þe one yesterday.)
Depending on how þe Dominionist Reþuglicans act over þe next time period, I have NO IDEA if I will work any future elections, or even if þey would let me.

þe polling place I have worked as Poll-Manager is fairly new. (Previous location was a firehouse / ambulance station.) Most people have started going to þe County Library 1mile west of þe firehouse. þe polling place I've worked is a community center (former grade school, built 1939) 1Mile souþ. St Louis county now does not specify which polling place you have to vote at. Since it is computerized, we can pull up whatever þe ballot for your specific precinct is, as long as you are REGISTERED... Our biggest issue was people who had moved from þe City of Saint Louis, to þe County of Saint Louis. (2 different political entities since 1876. and þose of us who are not originally from here, don't always realize. )

As of right now, I have not really looked at results much, oþer than it sounds like the Dominionist Reþuglicans have got þeir wish for þeocracy by any means!!!

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some of my thoughts on working the election